Re: git-upload-pack stream

> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 06:35:47PM +0200, Tajti Ákos wrote:
>
>> when pushing through http git-http-backend gets a stream of object
>> when sending the git-upload-packl command. This stream starts with
>> two object ids and a branch name. Is there a specification about how
>> this streem exactly looks like?
> Have you looked at what's in Documentation/technical in the git.git
> repository? Specifically, protocol-common.txt and pack-protocol.txt
> describe what happens over the regular protocol. The http version of the
> protocol just splits that into chunks, but the output that upload-pack
> produces is the same.
>
> You mentioned "pushing", though, which does not involve git-upload-pack
> at all. Did you mean git-receive-pack? From your description, I guess
> maybe you mean the "command-list" lines sent by send-pack to
> receive-pack? They are defined pack-protocol.txt. See the subsection
> "Reference Update Request and Packfile Transfer" under "Pushing Data to
> a Server".
>
> -Peff